Scam Alert: Phone calls pretending to be from CIRA

We have received an alert from CIRA (who oversees the .CA namespace) that a boiler room is calling people using the CIRA name with the objective of gaining remote access to the recipient’s computer:

Dear Registrars,

CIRA would like to notify all Registrars of a recent phone call security scam using the CIRA name that was brought to our attention by several .CA domain holders.

In this particular scam, a caller, claiming to be associated with CIRA, asks for information about the user’s computer. The caller then guides the user through a process that ultimately provides the scammer remote access to user’s computer and the information located on its hard drive.